Principal Counsel, Privacy

Babylist, a leading platform for expecting and new families, is seeking a Senior In-house Privacy Attorney to lead its privacy legal program. Reporting to the Senior Principal Counsel, this role involves overseeing U.S. state privacy compliance, adtech data flows, product-embedded privacy, and AI governance. As a strategic partner to Product, Engineering, Data, and Ads teams, the attorney will integrate privacy considerations into the company's operations.

Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining the legal review process for the product lifecycle, ensuring privacy-by-design from the outset. The attorney will lead privacy compliance for the advertising stack, manage data use agreements, and establish consent frameworks. Collaboration with Engineering and Product teams on data subject access request workflows, consent management, data mapping, and data minimization is essential. Additionally, the role involves advising on sensitive and health-adjacent data categories, monitoring the U.S. privacy regulatory landscape, and managing external privacy counsel.

Candidates should have over 12 years of professional experience, including at least 3 years at a reputable law firm and 5+ years in-house at a high-growth technology company. Expertise in U.S. privacy laws, such as CCPA/CPRA, and familiarity with emerging state privacy health frameworks are required. Hands-on experience with adtech data flows, including targeting, measurement, and consent requirements, is essential. The ideal candidate will have a strong business acumen, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to lead initiatives and influence without authority in a high-growth environment.

The starting salary range for this role is $229,412 to $275,311 annually, based on location, experience, and qualifications. Compensation includes equity and bonus opportunities, company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, a retirement savings plan with company matching, flexible spending accounts, generous paid parental leave, and a remote work stipend. Additional perks support physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning.

Babylist is a remote-first company with team members across the U.S. and Canada. The company emphasizes focus, intention, and recharging, investing in exceptional management and tools to connect colleagues. Building products that positively impact millions of people's lives, Babylist integrates AI into its operations to support innovation and impact. The company offers competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement, believing that technology and data can solve hard problems and being committed to career progression and performance-based advancement.